These are British Official pix, meaning they were taken by military photographers in the field. Looking at the reverse sides - We have similar images in one of our collections at sunny Murdoch Towers and I am almost certain, thanks to the chinagraph underlining shown, some of these prints form part of the collection which was junked the News of the World when Murdoch acquired it. Great swathes of newspaper library pictures have been sold off and abandoned down the years, so there are no comebacks. The Daily Mirror and Daily Express in London and Manchester have all done terrible deeds to pix archives - even quite recently. Terrible.
However, we continue to seek material belonging to the Times and News of the World which were lost (if I told you why I'd have to shoot several retired gentlemen) in 1986 during the unseemly rush from Fleet Street to Waplitz. The whole Times "uncensored" war pix archive was inadvertently left on the roof of the Times building in Grays Inn Rd (where it resided in an outhouse) when the Times moved out. The "famous" News of The World Crypt (which housed pix and documents going back centuries) was left in Bouverie Street and lost. By telling you this I don't expect anyone to tell me! I've got enough to look at (today it is The Sun bus in Moscow with page 3 girls........)
MB